quotes... Voltaire and selected others

The truth is rarely pure and rarely simple - Oscar Wilde

We are most alone when we are with the myths - Alexander the Great (unconfirmed)

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do”
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
“Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.”
“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively”
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
“There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts”
“Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes”

- Voltaire